As I posted yesterday IBM has donated Symphony to Apache to bolster the OpenOffice project. Kenvin Cavanaugh was quoted in a computer world article and there was a derived conversation at Slashdot that picked up on his comment that there really hasn't been any...

Some news that you might not have heard yet. Also an important angle to this story about the innovation in the document space and the potential of smarter documents. This week at the ODF Plug-fest in Berlin, IBM announced that the company will make a ...

Today, on June 1st 2011, Oracle announced ( link here ) that they have contributed the OpenOffice software to the Apache Software Foundation incubator. For IBM, Oracle's move fits well with our focus on open standards. The near future will reveal what actions...

The latest Beta release of the new release of IBM Lotus Symphony (version 3) has been posted and is available for free download. Versions are available for Windows, Mac and Linux. I have installed the Mac version and am now using it as my main office...

Yesterday I presented a full paper on a new method and research prototype that describes our thinking on the strategic technical direction of the Lotus Forms document format and processing model. The paper is now available from the ACM Digital Library and is...

So I am mid way through my third week of using Symphony as my primary office tool for working with spreadsheets, documents and slides. This week I have been on many conference calls reviewing slides with people. I noticed that I am getting sent a lot more Open...

In response to: My Symphony Experiment - week 2 So far there is nothing I have really needed to do that I have not been able to. That said while I am a self confessed "geek" I try not to be a super power user in any of the Office Suites as I find myself having...

So I am now well in to my second week of using Lotus Symphony to process every spreadsheet, slide deck and document that I receive. Even though, inside of IBM we are more and more sending each other Open Document Format (ODF) files, I still get a lot of...

In response to: Using Lotus Symphony in my day job I'm not sure if I have any specific hints or tips. For sure make certain to use Symphony 1.3 as it is a lot better than the 1,2 release. In general what I would say is try and keep an open mind and recognize...

Given my work focus is in the general area of emerging technology and open standards, I decided a week ago to try and move 100% to using Lotus Symphony for all of my day to day office suite needs. This includes working with spreadsheets, documents and...

In response to: Lotus Symphony 1.3 ready for you a click away to download and use Antony, great update. I am running Lotus Notes 8.5 and Symphony on my Linux desk top, and it works great. Thanks for helping to stamp out MS!
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Symphony 1.3 is ready http://finance.yahoo.com/news/IBM-Unleashes-New-Symphony-prnews-1726643700.html?x=0&.v=1 This could translate
into millions of dollars in savings at many large companies that are
looking for financial relief in the current economy....

So, more governments are recognizing the value of open standards and open source. Looks like the Canadian government has come out with an RFI with priority for low cost/no cost open source software: http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/02/canadian-gove...